There are two weeks left until the 100 Louisiana State Police officers deployed to the city to assist the New Orleans Police Department are set to leave town. One French Quarter resident is making a plea to get a security plan put into place for his neighborhood as quickly as possible.

"We got this real visible presence and everything calmed down and we got this nice sense of security. And we believe the crime has significantly dropped," said Mike Tilbury, a French Quarter resident. "But that's all going to change Sept. 1 when we don't have those extra state troopers."

As of right now, there are no plans in place for state police to extend their patrols in the city beyond Labor Day weekend. So to grab someone's attention about his concerns, Tilbury posted a sign on his balcony that reads "Help! We need more NOPD."

"I hope someone from the NOPD or from the city would come up with a plan to give us a sense of security that something's going to happen" said Tilbury.

Earlier this month, Bourbon Street business owners agreed to pay $10,000 a week for off-duty NOPD officers to patrol the street seven days a week after State Police leave town. The French Quarter Management District has also proposed a plan to utilize off-duty officer to patrol key areas of the Quarter, including residential areas and Bourbon and Royal Streets.

"The French Quarter Management District has been working on this for quite some time since earlier this year---before the Bourbon Street shooting," said Tilbury. "We knew we had a problem because we were having less and less NOPD."

The manpower issue is something the department has been working hard to tackle. Chief Ronal Serpas said recruiting efforts are going well and 27 new officers are set to graduate from the police academy in November. Serpas says things are even looking good already for next year.

"We will have at least 90 people, recently in or graduated from the police academy in 2014. And more even ready to being in 2015 with more classes," said Serpas.

At one point, Tilbury says he and his neighbors considered hiring private a company to patrol their neighborhood in the meantime. He says they quickly decided against going that route.

"We came to the conclusion that really we should be hiring off-duty NOPD which would make it more of a seamless operation. They could actually do something at a crime scene," said Tilbury. "These other private crime companies really can't from my understanding."